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Marion G Jackson Char Tr

Dallas, TX · EIN 04-6010559. Reported 96 grants totalling $2,311,766 to 48 organizations across tax years 2021-2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$20,100median grant
$2,311,766granted, 2021-2024
48organizations funded
64%of grantees funded again the next year
$14.4Massets, latest filing

Does this foundation accept applications?

Yes -- on its own tax return. Form 990-PF asks every private foundation whether it makes grants only to organizations it selects itself. Of the 91,758 foundations in our data that made a grant and answered, 78% said yes -- and applying to those is wasted effort. Marion G Jackson Char Tr did not check that box on its most recent filing, which puts it in the minority that is at least open to being approached.

This is the foundation's own statement to the IRS, not our judgement, and it says nothing about whether they have a form, a deadline, or an appetite for new grantees. Treat it as the reason this foundation is worth your research time, not as an invitation. Many small foundations of this kind have no website and no application process -- a letter of inquiry is the normal first step.

How big are its grants?

The median grant is $20,100. Half of everything it gave fell between $15,000 and $34,830; the smallest was $3,000 and the largest $50,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

$1,000 - $5,000
1 grant
$5,000 - $10,000
2 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
47 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
38 grants
$50,000 - $100,000
8 grants

Every organization it funded

This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which the organization received money -- more than one means a real relationship rather than a one-off.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
Blessing HospitalQuincy, IL$150,000332023
Girl Scouts of Central IllinoisSpringfield, IL$140,000442024
Quincy Community TheaterQuincy, IL$140,000442024
Bella EaseQuincy, IL$130,000442024
Sunset HomeQuincy, IL$130,000332023
Quincy Family YMCAQuincy, IL$124,030442024
Quincy Art CenterQuincy, IL$121,000442024
John Wood Community CollegeQuincy, IL$120,000442024
Transitions of Western IllinoisQuincy, IL$95,398332024
Salvation Army QuincyQuincy, IL$82,028332024
Chaddock Trauma ServicesQuincy, IL$75,000222024
Good Samaritan Home of QuincyQuincy, IL$75,000222023
Cornerstone Foundation for FamiliesQuincy, IL$65,000332024
Quincy Children's MuseumQuincy, IL$55,000332024
Quincy Society of Fine ArtsQuincy, IL$52,000442024
Community Fdn Serving West Ctl Il& Ne MoQuincy, IL$50,000222024
Friends of the Washington TheateQuincy, IL$50,000332024
Mississippi Valley Council Boy ScoutsQuincy, IL$48,000222024
Quincy Medical Group HealthcareQuincy, IL$45,810112022
Quincy UniversityQuincy, IL$35,000222023
Comm Fdn Serving Wc Il & Ne MoQuincy, IL$32,000222022
Historical Society of Quincy & Adams CtyQuincy, IL$30,000222024
Quincy MuseumQuincy, IL$30,000332024
Quincy Notre Dame High SchoolQuincy, IL$30,000112022
Quincy Symphony Orchestra AssociationQuincy, IL$30,000222024
The Good Samaritan Homeof QuincyQuincy, IL$30,000112024
Adams County Council for SeniorQuincy, IL$25,000112024
Cornerstone Foundation FamiliesQuincy, IL$25,000112021
QuanadaQuincy, IL$25,000112021
Advocacy Network for ChildrenQuincy, IL$23,500222024
American Red CrossWashington, DC$20,000222024
Historical Society of Quincy and Adams County Quincy & Adams CountyQuincy, IL$20,000112021
Midwest Food BankNormal, IL$20,000112021
Quanada Quincy Area Ntwk Against Domestic AbuseQuincy, IL$20,000112023
Quincy Symphony Orchestra AssocQuincy, IL$20,000112022
Adult and Teen Challenge IlPekin, IL$15,000112022
Adult and Teen Challenge IllinoisPekin, IL$15,000112024
Chicago Adult and Teen ChallengeChicago, IL$15,000112021
Teen Challenge IllinoisCarlinville, IL$15,000112023
United Way of Adams CountyQuincy, IL$13,000222022
American Red CrossQuincy, IL$10,000112021
Friends of the Lorenzo Bull HouseQuincy, MA$10,000112023
Humanity RisingLake Zurich, IL$10,000112021
Junior Achievement USAColorado Springs, CO$10,000112023
Lifeline IncPeoria, IL$10,000112023
Quincy Catholic Eleme NtaryQuincy, IL$10,000112024
Two Rivers Council Girl Scouts IncQuincy, IL$10,000112024
Special Olympics IllinoisNormal, IL$5,000112024

26 of 48 (54%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold.

Measured the way we measure every foundation -- what share of one year's grantees are funded again the next -- this one retains 64%, across 3 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is about typical. A high number means its list is close to settled and a newcomer has to displace someone; a low one means it is still moving money around, which is where an opening is.

What the money was for

Taken verbatim from the purpose field of its filings. This is the closest thing to a statement of what this foundation cares about, in its own words.

What kind of organizations it funds

By the recipient's own IRS classification, for the 48 grants where we could identify the organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses.

Human Services
12 grants
Arts & Culture
12 grants
Health Care
6 grants
Public & Societal Benefit
4 grants
Mental Health
3 grants
Youth Development
3 grants
Philanthropy & Grantmaking
3 grants
Education
2 grants

Giving by year

Tax yearGrantsTotalMedian grant
202121$538,893$25,000
202222$641,251$25,067
202327$573,622$20,000
202426$558,000$20,500

Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- filings arrive about a year late, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a foundation winding down.

Where its money goes

Foundations concentrate geographically far more than their mission statements suggest. 98% of this one's giving went to organizations in Illinois. If you are outside its footprint, that matters more than how well your programme fits.

Illinois
$2.3M
District of Columbia
$20K
Colorado
$10K
Massachusetts
$10K

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Funders that support the same organizations

These funders gave to organizations this one also funded -- some private foundations, some community foundations and other grantmaking charities. Shared grantees are the strongest available signal that two funders have overlapping priorities, and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.

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How to approach this foundation

  1. Check you are its size. The median grant is $20,100. Asking for ten times that is the most common way small organizations waste a submission.
  2. Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in Illinois.
  3. Read the recipient list above for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer, and a cheap one to get.
  4. Look up the current filing before writing. The 990-PF names the foundation's officers and, where one exists, its application procedure. We link it below.

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Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from Marion G Jackson Char Tr's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred, or estimated.

Address of record on the latest return: Po Box 653067, Dallas, TX, 75265. This is the address the foundation gave the IRS; many small foundations file through an accountant or a bank trust department, so it may not be where post to a programme officer should go.

EIN 04-6010559 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

This is history, not an open call. Foundation returns are published about a year after the tax year ends. Nothing on this page is a deadline. It is a record of who this foundation has actually funded, which is the best available predictor of who it will fund next -- and a much better basis for deciding whether to write to them than a mission statement.

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